Oscar De La Hoya and Steve Forbes announced their May 3 fight in Carson, Calif., without acrimony, largely because Roger Mayweather, who trains Forbes, wasn't there to offset his brother, Floyd Mayweather Sr., who formerly trained Forbes and now has returned as De La Hoya's trainer.

"It's strange to be against one of my former pupils, and I was with him for a long time," Mayweather Sr. said Tuesday at a Los Angeles press conference. "I was with him when he won the world title. But now I have a job to do, and that is to help Oscar win another big fight so he has the opportunity to rematch my son in September."